Polycythemia
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polycythemia-182-8564617
title:
Polycythemia
text:
Polycythemia is a laboratory finding in which the hematocrit and/or hemoglobin concentration are increased in the blood. Polycythemia is sometimes called erythrocytosis, and there is significant overlap in the two findings, but the terms are not the same: polycythemia describes any increase in hematocrit and/or hemoglobin, while erythrocytosis describes an increase specifically in the number of red blood cells in the blood. Polycythemia has many causes. It can describe an increase in the number
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description:
Laboratory diagnosis of high hemoglobin content in blood
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycythemia
date created:
2004-03-08T18:10:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T21:30:56Z
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